#college rowing

[strokeseathoe]

When practice is canceled & your non-rower friends want to hang

[iwannabeajenner]

views from the 4

[kendygandee]

[iwannabeajenner]

every damn day

[pearlchristine-blog]

Because I had a bike incident on Friday morning, I wasn’t able to race with my college on Saturday morning :( The upside was that I got to watch them from the bank & was totally proud of how good they looked! Normally I don’t bring my phone out on the river, so I used the opportunity to have a bit of an adventure and snap some photos too while cheering from land.

I also took a video of the girls going under the Green Dragon bridge on the way back home, after racing 2x2km:

[thebarbelles]

Hi! I'm a high school rower right now and I think? you row at USC? sorry if that's wrong 😁 but I'm thinking about rowing in college but I know it would be so much work and it already is so much work for the recruiting process so far so I was wondering whether you think it's fun to row in college or whether you would advise not to? I get really bad erging anxiety (lol I chose a great sport) but yeah thank you!:)

Hello! Okay so this is kind of a long story but here we go: I did row at USC for my first semester. I was a spring admit to the school, so I didn’t start until spring semester in January 2014. I was (and still am) a competitive weightlifter, and like maybe 2 weeks into that semester I was at a weightlifting meet and got an email that went out every female spring admit undergraduate saying that the D1 rowing team was having secondary tryouts. I had rowed freshman and sophomore year in high school and loved it but herniated 2 discs in my back and there was lots of bullshit high school drama so I quit after sophomore year. My back has been fine since I quit for the most part, and reading the email made me get the itch for the water so I ended up walking on the team without a tryout really. They were short a rower for their novice boat which was made up of 8 walk-ons who had only just learned to row in the fall, and the only American recruit of the year that hadn’t quit; so basically when the coach found out that I already knew how to row she told me that if I show up to practice every day, I’m on the team. They needed me to fill out the boat (they even switched my side), but my point is that I didn’t go through the recruiting process and neither did most of my boat mates. Most schools’ novice teams are made up of the recruits, but I guess there were issues with coaching or something and everyone quit. I don’t know anything about the recruiting process. As far as the erging anxiety goes, all I can say is that if you go to school somewhere cold you’re fucked. Idk tho, I can’t erg because of my herniated discs but I think they erged twice a week and did a 2k only twice in the semester. 

My advice to you: Rowing in college is hard as fuck because it’s usually early mornings 6 days a week with double days 2-3 times a week, but if you’re willing to dedicate yourself to it and love the grind, it’s great. Your team becomes your family and if you go to a D1 school, you’re treated like royalty. Athletes at USC get to register for class first, they get free tutoring, an athlete’s only building which includes a fancy af computer lab, virtually unlimited access to physical therapy modalities, free smoothies in the morning, free snacks, tons of free clothes (uniform), and their laundry gets done for them. There are some serious perks. But it’s hard ass work. If you love rowing it’ll be worth it. At least for one semester lol 

[iwannabeajenner]

this makes the early mornings ok

[ellencmpro-blog-blog-blog]

Philadelphia University Rowing

Kerr Cup, Schuylkill River

April/2015